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Overthinking with Karmen

Overthinking with Karmen

By: Karmen Michael Smith
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You ever feel like you’re thinking too much? Like you see what’s happening in the world—your life, this culture, these routines we swear by—and you just can’t pretend it makes sense?


Good. Because same.


I’m Karmen Michael Smith, your Overthinker-in-Chief, spiraling publicly so you don’t have to.


This isn’t self-help. This isn’t hot takes. This is a disruption of the ordinary.


One day, it’s the gym and why my body resists going.
The next, it’s what happened to Starbucks?
And sometimes? It’s calling out the cultural mess we’re all pretending not to see.


No fake wisdom. No forced positivity. Just honest, unfiltered spirals about how we got here—and where we go next.


New episodes every week.


If you’re overthinking, you’re not alone. I’m already there.


© 2025 Karmen Michael Smith
Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Season Finale: If This is the Last Spiral...
    Aug 5 2025

    This is not a farewell—it’s a sacred pause. A moment to honor the spirals we've taken together: through fear and fatigue, freedom and faith, grief and becoming. In this last offering, Karmen reflects on what it means to follow divine instruction when you don't know the next step, to trust rest as sacred, and to live not just by grind, but by grace.

    If you’ve ever needed permission to stop striving, to stop performing, to simply be—this is that permission slip. The spiral doesn’t end here. It deepens.

    And until we spiral again, may disruption be the catalyst for your liberation.

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    7 mins
  • Forward, Fear, and Fatigue
    Jul 30 2025

    This week on Overthinking with Karmen, we’re not spiraling into “what’s next” — we’re asking why.

    As summer winds down and the weight of grief, fatigue, and global uncertainty settles in, we’re pausing to acknowledge a hard truth: it’s not just about rest or resetting. It’s about deciding to continue. And that decision — to move forward, to evolve, to choose love over fear — might be the bravest one you make.

    This spiral is for the tired. The stuck. The ones facing the question: Why should I keep going?

    The answer might just set you free.

    Visit 4LawsOfDisruption.com to start your personal disruption journey.

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    9 mins
  • Beyoncé, Baptism, and Beginning Again
    Jul 23 2025

    This week, I’m spiraling into rest.
    After months of non-stop building — the book, the sermons, the business — I finally paused. A spontaneous trip. A sacred moment in the ocean. A realization that rest isn’t failure, it’s part of the strategy.
    And then I saw Beyoncé live… and something clicked.

    We talk hustle. We glamorize grind. But what if your breakthrough comes after you sit still long enough to hear yourself again?
    Let’s talk burnout. Let’s talk baptism. Let’s talk the brave act of beginning again.

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    10 mins
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